John Le Mesurier
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John Le Mesurier was an English actor. He is probably best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army. A self-confessed "jobbing actor"
Le Mesurier in 1973
Sherborne School, Dorset, which Le Mesurier attended and disliked intensely
Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, where Le Mesurier appeared in numerous roles during 1938
Terry-Thomas, alongside whom Le Mesurier appeared in Private's Progress and Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Hattie Jacques
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Hattie Jacques was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, in which she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was als
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…were those of "a decent chap all at sea in a chaotic world not of his own making." Le Mesurier was married three times, most notably to the actress Hattie Jacques. A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of…
Hattie Jacques
Blue plaque at the house where Jacques was born: 125 High Street, Sandgate, Kent
125 High Street, Sandgate
ITMA, during a wartime recording session